You really think so? It is definitely a 70s vibe which I completely dig and many songs then were pop-driven simple with a necessary really good female vocalist to carry them. He might have written it to be that simple. By the way I really like your signature.

I really like the track. But it's a generic West Coast sounding track of its time. No compositional traits that I'd particularly associate with Prince, i.e. the chorus has a different melody to the verse

Absolutely beautiful song, and the pitter-patter of the rain in the background makes it even more special, just can't stop listening too it. And can't believe I had never heard of Valerie until now; what a voice!

The song is a real dog. We live in a world where people would rather hate on a masterwork like Cosmic Day.

Let's get it released, and then we'll have a chance to really see whether we'll hate on it or not. Based on what I've heard, I'll feel about the same as I do about this one--maybe a little more positive for Cosmic Day.

I'm skeptical about how much involvement Prince had with this song, but it has a faint, generic AM radio/'70s feel that he'd revert to at the time so it's not unfounded that he had some influence on the composition... in some way.

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Carter had some involvement with Maurice White and Earth, Wind and Fire, so her circles might have bumped slightly with Prince's world, but has this woman's name ever been uttered with his before the release of this track? It's been almost 40 years and I don't think her name has ever come up in relation to Prince until now, not counting her cover of Crazy You.

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Valerie Carter just died earlier this year so there's no way to verify this track, but it would be nice to see some sort of concrete evidence of Prince's involvement with this song. Did he write it? Did he play on it? Did he inspire it? Maybe he just happened to be observing the session from the booth. If it's a Prince track, it was one of his early throwaways so there has to be a demo/guide track for it.

Pretty song but it is written in an ultra feminine voice so I doubt Prince had anything to do with writing it. And the music is so basic, not Prince’s style at all, it’s bland and indistinguishable from a zillion other songs of that era (I was there).